What Trump’s security strategy means for Europe

December 10, 2025

What Trump’s security strategy means for Europe

When President Donald Trump’s second-term national security strategy arrived last Friday, it landed like a lead balloon across the Atlantic. Yet while the unnecessarily harsh vitriol toward Europe is an American problem, the persistent shock and confusion among Europeans anytime Trump and his team say anything damning is very much a European one. For the […]

2028 presidential candidates should be asked about Trump’s Ukraine plan

President Donald Trump‘s peace plan for Ukraine is music to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s ears. Trump may be sincere in his desire to end the bloodshed, but how wars end matters a great deal. By rewarding Putin’s aggression, Trump does two things that make peace far less likely in the future. First, he rewards aggression. […]

The private sector is standing up to China and supporting national security

There is good news and bad news when it comes to the nation’s defenses. The good news is that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon announced a $1.5 trillion initiative focused on national security. It is unclear how Dimon will gather the more than $10 billion of his bank’s own money that he committed for the […]

California’s new tax: A monthly subscription to use state roads

California’s latest scam tax to take money from its residents is essentially a subscription service that bills you every month for how often you drive a car. California Democrats, the personification of incompetence, have a two-pronged problem: The state wants to pay for road maintenance through an ever-increasing gas tax at the same time as […]

Europe absolutely does not have freer speech than the US

The people of the United Kingdom and the countries of the European Union manifestly do not have greater free speech rights than Americans. It’s not even close. Europeans argue otherwise by pointing to findings such as those from the World Press Freedom Index. But dig a little deeper, and you will see that the methodology […]

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Netflix was supposed to save us from cable. Now, it looks like we’re going back

For years, it felt like we were enjoying a revolution in the entertainment industry. The meteoric rise of streaming services and the decline of old media empires that followed was celebrated for providing consumers with cheaper, higher-quality content while giving them what they have wanted for decades: the ability to pick and choose their own […]

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